Thorne Dreyer's guest is singer-songwriter Penny Jo Pullus who performs,  backed by Matt Giles and Siobhán O'Brien, and also discusses her work with TeXchromosome, a nonprofit that advocates for, showcases, and promotes women artists. TeXchromosome includes a live music series and radio show and offers female-focused songwriting festivals and creative writing and career workshops to female musicians.

Penny Jo Pullus' music combines roots and pop stylings. Starting out in the New York punk scene, she has performed with Texas Music Hall of Famers Greezy Wheels, the Grammy Award-winning Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, and the John Bush Band.

Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at KOOP.org and Radio Free America. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement. The show’s engineer and co-producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is guest host; Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts, and Evan Hearn is the Rag Radio apprentice. The syndicated show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. Central) on KOOP, and is later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain,  CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH -- and as a featured podcast at Veterans Today. Learn more about Rag Radio here.